BY SCOTT KIRSNER. CREATESPACE/2008/218 PP./$15.95 (SB)In his latest book, Scott Kirsner charts what he calls "Hollywood's epic battle between innovation and the status quo." Film history is full of examples of this antagonism. In 1908 Thomas Edison co-founded the so-called "Trust," an organization aimed at putting movie production under its control. Its members doubted that an audience would tolerate movies longer than twelve minutes, until the renegade filmmaker D. W. Griffith released the three-hour The Birth of a Nation (1915), which was a huge success. When asked about the possibilities of motion pictures with sound, Kodak founder George Eastman famously declared, "The public will never accept it." Resisting color on the screen, "studios... --This text refers to the Digital edition.